[squid-users] Why Squid on CentOS is faster than Debian ?

[Alex Rousskov]

On 4/2/19 1:23 AM, David Touzeau wrote:
> Le 01/04/2019 à 23:22, Alex Rousskov a écrit :
>> Do your Squids use shared memory for the memory cache? See
>> memory_cache_shared (even if you do not set it explicitly).
>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/memory_cache_shared/

> The test did not use workers

That does not answer my question. Do you use Rock cache_dir(s)?


>> Any significant difference in mgr:info and mgr:counters output after a
>> test that only has memory hits?

The question still stands. I would recommend testing this with a single
URL and a fixed/same number of requests submitted by a reliable proxy
benchmarking tool or at least a wget/curl script.


> Do you know why CentOS objects are 34 bytes smaller than Debian ?

Something in your test setup or environment results responses (or
response delivery statistics) that differ in size between the tests. I
do not know what it is, and the number of possible options is too large
to guess correctly: It could be anything from 32-vs-64 bit OSes, to
locale differences, to Squid host name, to Cookies, to test setup
imperfections, to Squid statistics collection bugs, etc., etc.

Have you compared the responses received by the client (headers and
all)? Do they differ by 34 bytes? I suggest testing with a single URL
that produces different results and then digging down to identify the
difference (starting with comparing responses).

Alex.